Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Have you been measured at the Cooperative for your cap and gown? Remember that the price is advanced to $9.50 after Saturday, March 31, and that it is necessary to get your order in this week to be assured of having your cap and gown for the Class Picture. The first 150 orders for caps and gowns have been received by the Cooperative and should be called for. 1923 Class Day Committee...
...flintlocks are all highly ornamented and highly embossed. The next small arm development is shown by the percussion cap pistol used during the war of 1812. Perhaps the most interesting and ingenious gun on exhibition is the "pepper box" from which the modern revolver originated. The "pepper box" is a small weapon about six inches in length with a revolving cylinder which is divided into six parts, each of which forms a barrel. Then there are types of the revolver which were used during the Civil War and resemble the modern revolver. Finally there is a case containing modern small...
With only 40 Seniors measured for caps and gowns the remainder of the class faces the danger of being unable to secure them in time to appear in the class picture unless they are measured at once at the Cooperative. Absolutely no Senior without a cap and gown will be allowed in the class picture. 1923 Class Day Committee...
About this time, in colleges where certain traditions linger, the Freshmen are being received in to fellowship of classes by some such welcoming process as a pole-rush, tug-of-war, or cap-burning. Though lacking those familiar methods, Harvard has a substitute that serves in a somewhat similar capacity. The election today is in its way a formal recognition of the coming-of-age of the Freshman class. It is a reception at which the Class, Personified by its voting, presents itself to the rest of the college, and discloses it tastes and its character. If it goes...
...every student in the College should wear a paper cap colored with a certain hue to represent the state of the Union from which he comes, the lecture room of Comp. Lit. 12 for instance would resemble an overgrown pansy bed and the paths of the Yard would eclipse the most enthusiastic rainbow...